increase fee for unconfirmed transaction

[joe1234]

Hello

After how many hours a transaction was made without receiving a confirmation, it's recommended to intervent?


2.
Is it possible to define a new output with a higher transaction fee (in Electrum on Tails)?


Thanks!

Joe

[BlackHatCoiner]

After how many hours a transaction was made without receiving a confirmation, it's recommended to intervent?

Do you want to get it confirmed soon? If yes, then you should intervene.

Is it possible to define a new output with a higher transaction fee (in Electrum on Tails)?

Yes, you can “double spend” the amount you broadcasted with a higher fee if the transaction was signed as RBF. In electrum, it should allow you to do that, because it chooses RBF by default.

It should not differ on Tails.

[hosseinimr93]

If your transaction has been flagged as RBF, it's possible to replace it with a new one spending same input(s) with a higher fee.

Is it possible to define a new output with a higher transaction fee (in Electrum on Tails)?

What exactly do you want to do? Do you want to change the output to your own address?
If that's the case and the transaction has been flagged as RBF, you can right click on your transaction and select "Cancel (double spend)". If you do so, your transaction will be replaced by a new one spending the inputs to one of your wallet addresses.

[Maslate]

The instruction posted above is correct, you should also look at the current fee so you have an idea how much you'll increase that you'll not pay for a huge fee just to confirm your transaction. Choose static when increasing the fee.

use this site, https://mempool.space/

[Charles-Tim]

Is it possible to define a new output with a higher transaction fee (in Electrum on Tails)?

Either you use replace-by-fee to pump a transaction, or you use it to cancel a transaction in which it will be sent back into another address on your wallet with high fee, in this cases, the previous txid will be replaced with new txid when you pump or cancel a transaction with high fee.

But if you want to use replace-by-fee to manipulate the amount of bitcoin sent, either to deduct from it or to add to it, or to use it to create two or more different transactions, it is not possible.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

OP, all your answers have been given, so hopefully you've figured it out by now.  I just wanted to say that network fees as of this morning were fairly low, so you probably tried to send your bitcoin with a pretty low fee (or you're just being impatient). 

With Electrum it's usually good to see what the wallet suggests for a fee in terms of the mempool, and that's an option I believe you have to select manually at first (though I'm not sure about that).  You'll see that option when you hit "pay" and you'll have the options "ETA, static, mempool".  Even when you send with the recommended mempool fee, it can still take a while to get your first confirmation so just be patient.

[nc50lc]

Is it possible to define a new output with a higher transaction fee (in Electrum on Tails)?

Yes, you can “double spend” the amount you broadcasted with a higher fee if the transaction was signed as RBF. In electrum, it should allow you to do that, because it chooses RBF by default.

Electrum's "Increase fee" has only the capability to create a replacement that'll send to the same output(s) or back to self through "cancel (double-spend)"

Is it possible to define a new output with a higher transaction fee (in Electrum on Tails)?

That said, "Cancel (double-spend)" option will replace the output with one of your wallet's unused address.

[o_e_l_e_o]

But if you want to use replace-by-fee to manipulate the amount of bitcoin sent, either to deduct from it or to add to it, or to use it to create two or more different transactions, it is not possible.

It is entirely possible to do all these things with RBF.

An RBF transaction only had to spend at least one of the same inputs as the transaction it is replacing. It can add or remove other inputs freely, meaning you can absolutely send more or less bitcoin than in the original transaction. I can also use RBF to replace a transaction with multiple inputs, only include one of those inputs in my new transaction, and therefore free up the other inputs to be used in another transaction (or just left alone, if I want).